An almost clever squatter.

I think its great that he at least had the courtesy of hiding his usage of your land in a manor that would not damage its appearance ... at least he cared enough not to just set a new home on top of an existing one which I have seen...

By my own experience... I come home and I am welcomed then offered a tour of my property as well as being informed that for a small fee I can rent the property for a short while. after the Tour ( which was very thorough) I asked what was the rental fee for this space to which he informed me it was 500l per week. I then said wow that is cheap concidering for 24000 sq meter I spend quite alot more then that for this land you have decided to claim as your own. I honestly thought I saw dust fly from how fast he dissapeared.

Squatters will always be around... its more fun to play with them for a bit... they get stressed and you get free entertainment as payment for thier squatting

And be creative ... catch a squatter send him a bill ...if your lands big enough hold his items ransom and give them back one at a time for a fee... Squatters and griefers... SL's best form of free entertainment.

Now as far as auto return there can be good and bad experiences... I would rather just manually return thier items ( only takes a min ) or in the alternative make an object equal to the remaining prim and float it above 300m

Mostly I find abandoned things not squatters that might return....

It'd amusing to encase his sitballs with custom new ones that when used spout funny messages instead like:

"Your avatar has been infected with the AVATAR_SIT virus, please remove all attachments and try again."

"Script Error: Function called too many times."

"Loose reference error, please contact someone at LiveHelp to reload this object's ASSET_UUID."

"Sit_error: avatar not found."

A little update:
After my initial anger subsided, the situation ended up being resolved by a simple brief conversation and all items returned. Since then this person has actually become an almost regular at the club and hung out for a few events. This is a nice turnout. Just shows you never know how these things will wind up.
Oh and we did finally get around to completing the build in question, the dance club inside the mountain, which come to think of it, we might have ended up dragging our feet a little longer if it weren't for that incident. heh.




On a seperate note, but related to the above quote, we do have one evil chair at the club that is scripted to not allow anyone to sit in it. We call it the naughty chair. It is amusing every time a new person comes along and tries to sit only to be bounced back up again and we all have to explain and apologize for the chair's dislike for being sat upon.

So why *was* this guy squatting? And did he really think that it's not possible to tell that someone elses prims are on your land without seeing them?

Erm, maybe they are the one trying to get the point over to you, had that not occured to you? You put up a bloody sign that invites people to do just what you tell them not to, so that they can laugh at you at your expense. Seriously, you people put the sign up, no one else can be blamed for the constant hassles, but you lot.

Is it just me, or do the people in this thread sound... I dunno... heartless?

Eh. It must be because Im from the days before prim limits :-/
==Chris

I had a good laugh recently. Someone rezzed a boat with sex balls and started cybering in local chat. A few minutes later, they're naked and swimming around clueless - and reading choice phrases of their cybering in sim-wide chat.

Broadcasting people's conversations across the sim without their consent may be a Community Standards violation.

I love the evil chair Idea... myself as part of my teleport locations I have one labeled private... once clicked it sends the persons AV up to 500m and drops them to the ground... whether I am on property or not I love coming home and seeing that the teleporters last location showing is the Private location.

Squaters are funny, especially when they think they're slick. My friend and neighbor Foxkin found someone had almost 900 prims on his property. This guy wasn't a renter, but the sim was next to the FlyinTails Airfield so we figured it may be a few downed planes or an abandoned non-physical vehicle (I've seen some be made of close to 600 prims). So Foxkin goes searching for this 900 prims and what does he find? A a fully furnished 4 bedroom house roughly 250m above the ground the guy was aparently sharing with close friends. Foxkin IM's me to come take a look while he IM's the guy to come clean up since he was online. The guy played dumb like he did nothing wrong and didn't know how to clean up his mess. He eventually flew off and we got annoyed so we returned all his stuff for him. Not even 10 mins later we catch him rebuilding in another part of the sim like we wouldn't find it. We returned it on him and he got pissed. He was carrying weapons with him and tried IM'ing friends to come over, but by that point our friends had shown up. All of them estate managers. I wasn't an estate manager, but I have a sniper rifle that gets around the push restriction and he's seen me messing around with my buddies with it. By the time his 3 friends showed up, he was out numbered and out gunned so they split while foxkin added him to the estate ban (wich covers about 6 sims). I was tempted to just leave a security orb in the guy's house that sends him and his buddies home, but foxkin hates security orbs and doesn't allow them in his sim. Oh well, still fun.

I think people forget how ignorant they were of how SL worked when they first joined. My ignorance was massive and I made all sorts of similar blunders early in my life. I think it took me over a month just to understand what a prim was (I remember seeing a sign about prim hair and being totally confused, was 'prim' a manufacturer?) Certainly the concept of land ownership is alien to most MMPOGs.

if i come to your house and set up my trailer in your backyard is that ok?

I didn't put the sign up, my partner did. She got tired of always reminding people of the rules, so she put the sign there to remind people that this is a store, not a sandbox. The number of squatters has gone down since the sign was put up.

And by the way, I don't get upset when people ignore the sign, and no one gets to laugh at me at my expense. All greifers, of all types, are entertainment to me I was almost disapointed that none showed up yesterday, I wanted to try out my new gohomer

Sure Duntroon, mow the lawn and toss me a few bucks and you can put your trailer there for a few days. If you overstay your welcome, I can always click on the auto return. But for gods sake, no running around the lot with no shirt on.

Hehehe.. I remember when land was free!
Those were good times.

I believe someone might not know better. Some people come here not knowing what to expect, and unless someone tells them they'll never know. Who knows.